HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1983-11185 RESOLUTION NO.11185
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA
VISTA URGING THE U. S. CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT TO
FULLY FUND THE COMMITMENT MADE UNDER THE FEDERAL
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1982
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, the City of Chula Vista is not only an indirect
recipient of funds provided under the Federal Public Transportation
Act of 1982, but derives very essential services from the operations
of the San Diego Transit system providing service to all of the citi-
zens of this community, and
WHEREAS, the City of Chula Vista recognizes that the San
Diego Transit Corporation has made great strides in reducing its
operating costs, and
WHEREAS, San Diego Transit Corporation has already needed
to curtail productive services and increase fares because of reduc-
tions in Federal Operating Funds, and
WHEREAS, Proposition 13 eliminated local operating support
and made it virtually impossible to generate new local funding, and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has passed and
the President has signed legislation supporting a specific commit-
ment to transit equal to 80% of the FY 82 Federal Operating Funds,
and
WHEREAS, the Administration has proposed in its FY 84
budget to cut back dramatically on the commitment agreed to only
one month ago by:
1. Deferring the expenditure of $229 million on
capital projects from gas tax monies in FY 83;
2. Cutting capital discretionary and block grant fund-
ing by 20 percent in 1984;
3. Cutting the level of Federal Operating Assistance
for 1984 by more than two-thirds and by eliminating
it altogether the following year;
and
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WHEREAS, the City recognizes the impossibility of plan-
ning, budgeting or, most importantly, of providin~ meaningful
service to the public when funding levels are not known until
half way through the fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of
the City of Chula Vista urgently calls upon the U. S. Congress and
the President to fully fund the commitment made in the Federal Public
Transportation Act of 1982, thereby maintaining operating assistance
as a key part of Federal assistance and continuing capital discre-
tionary and block grant funding at the levels authorized by Congress,
and so necessary to meet the needs of the public.
Presented and Approved as to form by
George D. Lindberg, City Attorney
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED .BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this 15th day of March
19 83 , by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen McCandliss, Moore, Malcolm, Cox, Scott
None
NAYES: Councilmen
None
ABSTAIN: C, ot~cilmen
None
ABSENT: Councilmen
M~r~the City of Chula Vista
STA, ~ OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA }
I, JENNIE M. FULASZ, CMC, CITY CLERK of the City of Chulo Vista, California,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is o full, true and correct copy of
RESOLUT I0N N0. / / t' ~'_5"' , and that the some has not been amended or repealed.
DATED March 16, 1983
(seal) City Clerk
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